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Director Jonathan Patz to speak at TEDxOshkosh: Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure?
GHI Director Jonathan Patz has been selected to speak at the 2017 TEDxOshkosh event. Here he will discuss climate change and its connection to public health problems – from alterations in infectious disease transmission to water-source compromise, malnutrition, air pollution, and other factors. Patz will draw from the latest research to show the health and…
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Connecting Landscapes: Long-term collaboration
The University of Wisconsin and University of Guadalajara (UdeG) system campuses have a long, rich history of collaboration. In the past year, a multidisciplinary team of UW scholars were fortunate enough to have had the support of an IRIS-funded grant, titled “Connecting Landscapes,” to do some targeted work with UdeG colleagues to build an even stronger platform for…
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Free Film Festival: Tales from Planet Earth
Standing Rock. Idle No More. The Landless Worker’s Movement. Across the globe, new alliances and collective actions are rising up in the struggle for the rights and sovereignty of local peoples to determine their own futures. Our 2017 festival showcases stories that inform, challenge, and inspire us to rethink relationships to land in an era…
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Connecting Landscapes: Adriana Olivares
The University of Wisconsin and University of Guadalajara (UdeG) system campuses have a long, rich history of collaboration. In the past year, a multidisciplinary team of UW scholars were fortunate enough to have had the support of an IRIS-funded grant, titled “Connecting Landscapes,” to do some targeted work with UdeG colleagues to build an even stronger platform for…
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Wisconsin Science Festival
The four-day Wisconsin Science Festival is a statewide celebration with events across Wisconsin for people of all ages. 285+ events include hands-on science exhibitions, demonstrations, performances, tours, pub nights, workshops and more. The Wisconsin Science Festival received the Key of Excellence Award from Phi Beta Kappa in 2014 for “blending science with both the arts and humanities…